Re: Any Apple IIgs' IDE for Mac OS X?

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Jun 25, 5:56 pm, Sheppy <the.she...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently the only viable option is MPW, as previously stated in this
> thread. There just really isn't anything else. It's happiest in Mac OS
> 7.5 or 7.6. It works in later versions of Mac OS up through 9.2.2, but
> has some occasional glitches.
>
> It's not the world's most user-friendly environment, but it's fast and
> the tools work well once you learn them. I use them fairly often.
>
> MPW does work in Classic although since as I mentioned it prefers
> earlier versions of Mac OS, it can be slightly glitchy. And of course
> since it needs classic Mac OS, you need a PowerPC Mac to use it.
>
> I'm not aware of any viable Apple IIgs developer environments other
> than MPW.
>
> One thing I've been looking at doing -- and some initial back-end work
> has been done on this -- is making it possible for Mac OS X to
> communicate with ORCA. With a few simple OS X command line tools, it
> would be possible to send files to the GS, issue commands in ORCA, and
> fetch back the output from them. The result would be that you could
> edit your code on the Mac, look at the compiler output on the Mac, but
> have the actual compilation done on the emulator.
>
> Sheppy

I've not used either MPW or SheepShaver, but what about running MPW
under SheepShaver, running an old Mac OS?  That would keep you on an
OSX box, at least.
http://sheepshaver.cebix.net/